The New York Times’ review of Amazon’s new Kindle is worth reading. The point everyone is missing is that in Technoland, nothing ever replaces anything. E-book readers won’t replace books. […]
Illinois at the Oscars
The 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony included two prominent film figures who happen to be the subjects of forthcoming books in our Contemporary Film Directors series. Jerry Lewis received the Jean Hersholt […]
Jason Epstein on the future of publishing
Tools of Change for Publishing has posted Jason Epstein’s keynote address given at the recent TOC conference. I don’t have to tell anyone here that we are at the end of the […]
The London Review of Books reviews “Emma Goldman”
The February 26, 2009, issue of London Review of Books includes a review of volumes 1 & 2 of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, published late last year […]
Day of Remembrance by Jasmine Alinder
February 19th is the annual Day of Remembrance when we reflect on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The day this year marks the 67th anniversary of […]
Princeton’s problems with pirates
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning on Princeton University Press’s recent experience tracking pirated copies of its books. For several months, Princeton had a staffer focused on identifying piracy sites […]
Inside Higher Ed explores Manichaeism
Today’s edition of Inside Higher Ed features a Scott McLemee piece on the new English translation of Michel Tardieu’s Manichaeism. “Manicheaism regards the world as a battlefield occupied by the […]
A random walk down university press row
-UNC Press Blog lets a cat post something to its site. -Indiana University Press blog types the praises of Helvetica. -Penn State University Press blog shares a personal John Updike story and announces […]
Cheryl Keyes wins NAACP Image Award
On February 12th, Cheryl L. Keyes won an NAACP Image Award in the category of “Outstanding World Music Album” for her debut CD, Let Me Take You There (Keycan Records […]
The Huffington Post remembers Bess Lomax Hawes’s hit
Peter Dreier and Jim Vrabel, writing for The Huffington Post, celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kingston Trio recording “MTA.” The group deserves credit for helping to launch the folk […]
Is it an audiobook?
Yahoo! reports that there could be legal concerns over a feature on the new Kindle. One small, experimental feature in the device is already causing a minor uproar. Specifically: The Kindle 2’s […]
It’s Lincoln’s birthday
Has Lincoln always been cool? A new museum in Springfield, Illinois. Obama’s hand on the 16th president’s bible. Shelves full of new biographies. It’s hard for me to tell because I’ve […]